Rights of the child

Child marriage leads to maternal mortality, with 70,000 girls needlessly dying in child birth every year.

States are making laws based on religious grounds that are incompatible with their obligations on the human rights of children.

Humanists International has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to renew the mandate of the role responsible for monitoring…

Some so-called 'witchdoctors' and 'traditional' healers continue to torture and kill children in a number of countries.

Access to safe and legal abortion is a human rights issue, humanists emphasized at the United Nations Human Rights Council…

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has expressed regret at the withdrawal of the United States of America from…

  62nd ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS (25 April to 9 May 2018, Nouakchott,…

Humanists at the UN have called on the government of Guatemala to give equal rights to LGBTI people, better protect…

In a joint statement made by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) and the Humanist Association of Ghana (HAG),…

  Even in countries where children or families have the right to opt-out from religious instruction or teaching, many are…